Geriatric Care Manager Near Me
Welcome to my site! My name is Margaret Sanders, I've been a registered nurse for over 40 years. My specialization is in hospice and geriatric care.
Throughout my career I've seen many patients and their families struggle with insurance policies and finding the right care giver.
Geriatric care management is more than just a passion for me, it's my purpose.
My years in this field have given me everything I need to know in order for you to the best treatment or facility. I now dedicate my time to helping families just like yours find the best care.
I've guided hundreds of Texas residents to the right medical care.
In addition to that I’ve helped them save thousands of dollars in unneeded medical expenses.
My job is to help you navigate through complex insurance policies and provide the necessary guidance you need in order to determine what is the best option for you and your family.
Throughout my career I've seen many patients and their families struggle with insurance policies and finding the right care giver.
Geriatric care management is more than just a passion for me, it's my purpose.
My years in this field have given me everything I need to know in order for you to the best treatment or facility. I now dedicate my time to helping families just like yours find the best care.
I've guided hundreds of Texas residents to the right medical care.
In addition to that I’ve helped them save thousands of dollars in unneeded medical expenses.
My job is to help you navigate through complex insurance policies and provide the necessary guidance you need in order to determine what is the best option for you and your family.
What is a geriatric care manager?
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A geriatric care manager or an aging life expert is a licensed professional, mostly nurses or social workers, that specializes in geriatrics that can help you and your family navigate your way through all that there is to know about aging life care. You can think of a geriatric care manager as a professional relative who will identify the needs for your family and is there for all the support you need. Being directly involved in your specific family situation, the geriatric care manager can assess what your family truly needs and can connect you with the right care providers. A geriatric care manager can also help you and family find the resources you need in the complex world of health care, insurance policies and long term housing. Hiring an aging life care manager will make your life easier, and make any transition smoother. |
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What does a geriatric care manager do?
Geriatrics care managers or aging life consultants help the caregiver in exploring and determining the best possible options out there for long-term care and housing options.
Because of the knowledge and expertise of a geriatric care manager, which oftentimes is a social worker or a registered nurse with years of experience in geriatric care, they can guide you through the complex process of finding the best possible care for your beloved family member.
Geriatric care managers:
- Can coordinate medical services needed
- Evaluate in-home care
- Evaluate other living arrangements
- Make plans, both long and short term
- Know the health care system very well
- Help you navigate through the process and find the best solutions
- Provide the family with emotional support and stress relief
- Make home visits, apart from consultation over phone
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7 knowledgeable areas of a geriatric care manager: Legal Financial Housing Health care and disability Family centered Crisis intervention Client advocacy |
What other services does a geriatric care manager provide?
Geriatric care managers mainly work with the caregivers of aging people. They understand all the ins and the outs of the complex web of geriatric care and health insurance, which oftentimes can be confusing to navigate through for the caregiver.
Geriatric care managers do not only work with the caregivers of aging people, although the majority of them are. Life care Professionals have the experience and expertise to work with all ages.
Care managers also assist younger adults and children who are facing challenging situations. Care professionals are there to help anyone who has concerns about the care of their child, young adults or parents.
Oftentimes, when a child is born with physical or mental disability, it brings forth some complex care situations, especially when the disability is severe. Parents in that situation can become concerned about the long-term plan of care for the child. A life care professional will help you find the best, client centered solutions.
Sometimes a life care professional will also help caregivers of young adults who have been in a devastating accident that caused brain injury or neurologic disability. This type of situation is extremely painful since the young adult was living a perfectly ‘normal’ life before the accidents. All of a sudden his or her life changed so abruptly, which makes it also a very shocking event for the parents. In this case it is very beneficial to hire a geriatric care manager that can be there for your family. A parent or caregiver can feel a huge relief hiring a geriatric care manager because he or she knows exactly what institutions to contact, how the health insurance policies work, what particular care is needed etc.
Geriatric care professionals can also help people with physical disabilities, mental disabilities or mental health problems.
Care professional can help children, young adults and adults with developmental disabilities, such as autism spectrum syndrome (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), cerebral palsy (CP), intellectual disabilities (ID) and learning difficulties.
It can be a challenging situation for the person with the disability/ difficulty as well as for their parents.
Finding the right support can seem like a daunting task. Having the help of a life care professional can really chat light upon the entire situation.
A geriatric care manager can help coordinate the care and support of children, young adults, adults and elderly that have:
- Physical or mental disabilities
- Suffered brain injury
- Chronic illness
- Developmental disabilities
- Dementia
- Any type of illness, disability that caused a sudden change in the quality of life
Benefits of using a geriatric care manager or aging life professional
The benefits of using a geriatric care manager outweigh the expense if you look at what they do and how to make your life end the life of your beloved family member so much easier.
Hiring a geriatric care manager or aging life professional, will help you guide your way to all there is to know about the best care options for your loved one.
Sometimes we see that when a person is aging and cannot live on their own anymore, they have children that do live in another state. They want to provide the best care for their elderly parents, but it is hard for them to coordinate all of the things that need to be done in order for the parents to receive the care they need. They have to fly back and forth from their home town to the town of their parents, only figuring out when they just left for their hometown that more documents need to be signed or more of a strange ins need to be made.
In this particular case the benefits of using a geriatric care manager are wonderful. They can live their lives without constantly flying back and forth while resting assured that their parents are being taken care of.
Oftentimes a geriatric care manager can help you save time and money. Because of the knowledge and know-how of the geriatric care manager regarding health care, It will save you time since you don't have to call all the Healthcare facilities yourself. You just tell your geriatric care manager everything there is to know about your family's situation in the initial consultation. Your care manager we'll figure everything out, based on the requests you made in regards to long-term care and housing, and all of your other care needs.
Hiring a geriatric care manager can also save you money, since they can provide information on Federal and State entitlements. They can help clients and families with insurance concerns, claims and applications. It is quite absurd, but when contacting an insurance agency about a claim or an application, they will not be transparent to you and not tell you that you don't have to pay it or that you qualify for a reduction. Of course a geriatric care manager acts in the best interest of the client and the family, and will always be fully transparent, saving the family and the client thousands of dollars or even much more in some cases.
Benefits of hiring a geriatric care manager include:
- Helps to find resources make life easier
- Finding the best possible care solutions
- Saves time
- Reduces stress, creates peace of mind
- Saves money
How do I find the right geriatric care manager?
Finding a geriatric care manager in Texas and more specifically in the Dallas-Fort Worth area shouldn't be that hard. There are many organizations that can help you find a care manager near your family members home. The eldercare locator is one of them.
You may also contact reputable caring homes to ask them if they have any recommendations for an aging care manager.
In Dallas-Fort Worth there are also many support groups for diseases related to aging that may be able to recommend geriatric care managers.
A more informal way of getting recommendations for geriatric care managers is adding yourself to a geriatric care manager group on Facebook, and finding recommendations there.
How much does a geriatric care manager cost?
The cost of a geriatric care manager In Texas Ranges from $150 to $1,000 for the initial assessment. The costs will vary based on scope of work for your particular situation. After the initial assessment, if further support is needed, an hourly rate is paid to the geriatric care manager.
Remember that a geriatric care manager can probably save you a couple of hundreds or even thousands of dollars so it may well be worth it to hire one.
How do I get started with my geriatric care manager?
Before you get started you may want to ask the care manager some questions to qualify if he or she would be a good fit for your family. This can be done in a free consultation over the phone.
Some questions you can ask:
- Does the care manager have a certification?
- How long has the care manager been in the healthcare industry?
- What area of expertise?
- Any references?
After the initial phone call, where you laid out the situation that is going on and the type of help you seek to get, you make an appointment for the initial assessment, where the geriatric manager will dig deeper and already come with solutions, or at least give a brief idea of the short and long term plan.